Week one regional control system showstoppers

[Bandgeek80001]

Originally Posted by sparrowkc

Second problem
During some matches, our joystick simply did not work. Inputs on the IO board did work, and the joystick was listed in the setup tab of the DS. I know of at least one other team that had this problem. I remember it happening on and off the field. It seemed to persist across power cycles and then fix itself. Ours was a logitech 3-axis joystick. It was going through the hub, and I couldn't reproduce it after I connected it straight to the classmate.

In the pre-season, we've figured out an annoying, yet seemingly foolproof way to fix the joystick thing in a pinch.

If you go into the DS, under the setup tab, you can see all the joysticks that the computer detects. If you reorder the malfunctioning one to a different position, and then move it back, this seems to fix the problem.

Ultimately I wish we knew a better fix, but this has worked in the several times we've experienced this problem.

And our Targus hub went out, too. We're planning to bring a few spares